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New MacBook Pro M5 Pro (48GB unified memory) incoming — looking for the best local AI stack

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Hi everyone! I have a MacBook Pro with an M5 Pro and 48GB of unified memory arriving soon, and I’d love to get recommendations from people who are already running local models seriously on Apple Silicon. My goal is to build a solid all-local setup for: General-purpose LLM use: chat, reasoning, rese…

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  1. 2026-09-15 08:10 · r/LocalLLM
    MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB — Qwen 3 27B with Ollama is extremely slow
  2. 2026-09-13 10:04 · r/LocalLLM
    New MacBook Pro M5 Pro (48GB unified memory) incoming — looking for the best local AI stack

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